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May 18, 2026
An Office and Professional Employees International Union unit has urged the NLRB to reverse part of an agency judge's ruling finding that a Michigan hospital unilaterally hired temporary registered nurses to replace workers in the bargaining unit, arguing that the judge erred by determining that claims regarding the use of the nurses before April 2022 are time-barred.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to take up the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.'s challenge to a Second Circuit decision that said the agency erred by rejecting the union pension fund's application for a $132 million bailout.
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May 15, 2026
A Texas federal judge permanently blocked the National Labor Relations Board from prosecuting a social services platform, saying agency officials' job protections are unconstitutional and inseparable from federal law, and that the board's pursuit of novel remedies flouts its targets' jury rights.
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May 15, 2026
In the week ahead, attorneys should watch for Ninth Circuit oral arguments in a disability discrimination suit against Union Pacific Railroad Co. Here's a look at that case and other labor and employment matters on deck in California.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit on Friday refused to rethink a panel's earlier decision that revived two proposed class actions against cereal giant Kellogg and transportation company FedEx in which retirees allege that their pension payments were lowballed due to outdated mortality tables used in conversions.
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May 15, 2026
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger has vetoed legislation that would have expanded collective bargaining rights for public employees in the state, drawing condemnations from unions that had pushed the changes as critical improvements for labor rights in the commonwealth.
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May 15, 2026
An Alaska federal judge won't hold a cargo airline and union in contempt for refusing to schedule an arbitration hearing on behalf of a pilot who the judge ruled was owed one, but she will sanction them if they don't schedule it within six months, she said.
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May 15, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has ordered the National Labor Relations Board to rethink a ruling that Starbucks unfairly fired a union backer who sent profane messages and opened its mail, saying the board did not grapple with evidence showing his "extreme" words were an outlier in a workplace that tolerated some profanity.
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May 15, 2026
The Sixth Circuit declined to revive a worker's suit claiming a heavy machinery dealer fired him for seeking leave to manage his mental health and that his union failed to challenge his termination, ruling he lacked evidence that prejudice informed his firing rather than his performance issues.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is close to ending its annual collection of workplace demographic data now that a proposed rule that would rescind employers' reporting requirements has been sent to the White House for approval.
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May 15, 2026
This week, the Second Circuit will consider whether to revive a former New York City teacher's lawsuit claiming she was fired and blacklisted from future work after she refused to be vaccinated against COVID-19 due to religious objections.
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May 14, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board judge correctly awarded a win to a Laborers local in a case that accused the union of mismanaging its Las Vegas hiring hall, the board ruled, rejecting a request by two former union members to overturn the judge's decision.
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May 14, 2026
Organized labor is making a public push to have a greater say in how employers implement artificial intelligence in the workplace, queuing up a strategy that relies on a mix of political advocacy and collective bargaining to address a technology that the labor movement is casting as a potential existential threat.
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May 14, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board suit accusing SpaceX of firing critics of boss Elon Musk is over after the Office of the General Counsel on Thursday denied workers' challenge to a finding that the company is outside the board's jurisdiction.
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May 14, 2026
The Machinists union's pension fund asked a D.C. federal court to approve an arbitrator's rejection of BAE Systems Inc.'s claims that the fund improperly calculated its roughly $16.2 million withdrawal liability.
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May 14, 2026
Callan LLC has reached a deal in a class action from a group of union carpenters who claimed the investment consulting firm and their pension funds' trustees lost them $250 million in assets by investing in Allianz index funds, according to a Washington federal court filing.
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May 14, 2026
Tennis players told a New York federal court their professional association is being denied access to the French Open and Wimbledon in retaliation for suing several tournament operators and the sports' governing bodies for allegedly acting like a cartel to control their wages and working conditions.
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May 14, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel Thursday pressed counsel for a former Chicago Transit Authority bus driver on whether the record showed he was fired because he is transgender, rather than because he failed to follow procedures for taking leave, as he seeks to revive discrimination claims against the agency and union.
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May 14, 2026
Employers should be allowed to tell workers that unionizing could end their direct relationship with their managers, as well as hold mandatory meetings to discourage unionization, the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel said, asking the board to overturn a pair of Biden-era rulings that outlawed these tactics.
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May 14, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board cleared Apple of claims that it fired a worker for raising workplace concerns, affirming a judge's ruling that the worker raised only "personal gripes" in a series of disruptive mass emails.
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May 13, 2026
A Midwest paving and road construction company has urged the Sixth Circuit to rethink its recent decision finding that the company unlawfully locked out Michigan employees during a bargaining dispute with a union, arguing that the decision conflicts with a recent ruling made by the circuit court in a separate case.
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May 13, 2026
A divided Pennsylvania appeals panel on Wednesday held that administrators at a Pennsylvania university were allowed to remove a list of "infamous" strike-breaking union faculty members from a public bulletin board, even though the posting itself was legally protected.
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May 13, 2026
A Texas medical spa admitted to firing a worker because she'd discussed her pay with a co-worker, so it should be held liable for a National Labor Relations Act violation, agency prosecutors told a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge after a hearing in a case against the spa.
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May 13, 2026
A proposed deal to settle a National Labor Relations Board case asserting that Amazon jointly employs its contract drivers — but without an admission that the retail giant is their joint employer — echoes the controversial end of an Obama-era case seeking to establish that McDonald's employs its franchisees' workers.
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May 13, 2026
A Colorado fire chief urged the Tenth Circuit Wednesday to find a lower court erred in denying him qualified immunity after terminating a union president, with the three-judge panel questioning the relationship between the union's collective bargaining agreement and the U.S. Constitution's requirements.